11.   An INS officer asked whether they wanted an appointment to get visas for the children.

12.   An Izvestia reporter who spent all day getting a visa at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow complained in a recent story.

13.   Anxious parents have arrived in Pakistan, hoping to get visas to Kabul.

14.   Arrojo is expected to come to the U.S. to sign his contract after he gets a visa, the team said.

15.   As did he, they have been stonewalled trying to get visas from the American embassy to come see their son play.

16.   A brother and sister from Ecuador, in this country illegally, asked Pineda if the school could get them visas, something it is not allowed to do.

17.   A new policy that caught the Kaplans and other parents by surprise has meant long delays in getting American visas for the adopted children.

18.   A running joke among Palestinians here is that if Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat could do it, he would get a visa and go live in America.

19.   A third was the place where Al-Hazmi got his visa.

20.   All Arabs have experienced increased scrutiny and difficulty getting visas during travel to and from the United States, but Palestinians in particular.